Once it decides on a destination, it propels itself by thrusting its body up and away from the tree, sucking in its abdomen and flaring out its ribs to turn its body into a "pseudo concave wing",[2] all the while making a continual serpentine motion of lateral undulation[3] parallel to the ground[4] to stabilise its direction in midair in order to land safely.

[8] According to research performed by Professor Jake Socha at Virginia Tech, these snakes can change the shape of their body in order to produce aerodynamic forces so they can glide in the air.

[12] Their range is in Southeast Asia (the mainland (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos), Indonesia, and the Philippines), southernmost China, India, and Sri Lanka.

[16][17] They are mildly venomous snakes, but their tiny, fixed rear fangs make them dangerous only to their small prey.

Knowledge of their behavior in the wild is limited, but they are thought to be highly arboreal, rarely descending from the canopy.